DISCIPLINE QUOTAS: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S EVIL LIVES ON

by John Hinderaker at PowerLine:

In 2014, the Obama administration promulgated a “guidance” to America’s public schools that threatened federal investigations and litigation against schools where black students are disciplined (e.g., by suspension) more often, on a pro rata basis, than white students, on the ground that such numerical discrepancy is evidence of discrimination. Many schools responded by adopting discipline quotas, which meant in practice that after a certain number of students of a particular race had been suspended, teachers and administrators were helpless to enforce any kind of discipline in classrooms.

The Obama administration is gone, thankfully, but its “guidance” has not been revoked. Meanwhile, state governments and federal courts that are in liberal hands have taken up the claim that disparate incidence of discipline must be discriminatory, a theory that flies in the face of common observation that misbehavior in school is not randomly distributed in the student population.

In Minnesota, the Department of Human Rights has reportedly sent letters to 43 school districts and charter schools, telling them that they are under investigation because of racial disparities in discipline. There is an added Orwellian element in that news of the letters has leaked out, but no one knows what 43 school districts have gotten the letters, or what the letters say. Under Minnesota law, it apparently is difficult if not impossible for the public to get that information. So the far-left administration of trust fund billionaire Mark Dayton is able to bully school districts in the shadows, without public knowledge or recourse.

Brace yourself, parents of Minnesota. Here’s what’s coming soon to a school near you: increased violence, brazen challenges to teachers’ authority and a chaotic environment where learning is an uphill battle. Teachers who try to exert control will find their hands tied, and some kids — no longer accountable for their behavior — will feel free to provoke mischief and mayhem.

If this happens at your school, you’ll be able to thank the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR). In fall 2017, the department sent letters to 43 school districts and charter schools across the state, announcing that the schools are under investigation because their student discipline records suggest that black and Native American students are disciplined at a rate that exceeds their proportion of the student population.
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Here, in essence, is MDHR’s position: The primary cause of racial discipline gaps in schools is racist teachers and discipline policies, not differing rates of student misconduct. Schools must move to end these statistical group disparities. If administrators don’t agree to change their practices in ways that reduce black and Native American discipline rates, according to MinnPost, “[Human Rights Commissioner Kevin] Lindsey says the state will initiate litigation.”

We’ve seen this movie before, most recently in the St. Paul Public Schools. There, it had devastating consequences for students of all backgrounds. MDHR bureaucrats must have been the only people in St. Paul who weren’t paying attention to this debacle.

In St. Paul schools — as virtually everywhere in the country — black students, as a group, are referred for discipline at higher rates than other students. Starting around 2012, the district’s leaders tried to narrow this gap by lowering behavior expectations and removing meaningful penalties for student misconduct. For example, they spent millions of dollars on “white privilege” training for teachers, and dropped “continual willful disobedience” as a suspendable offense.

Violence and disorder quickly escalated. In some schools, anarchic conditions made learning difficult, if not impossible, according to teachers. In December 2015, after a vicious attack by a student left a high school teacher with a traumatic brain injury, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi labeled the trend of violence a “public health crisis,” according to news accounts.

By that time, suspensions — which had initially fallen — had surged to their highest rate in five years. Black students, about 30 percent of the student body, were 77 percent of those suspended. The St. Paul teachers’ union threatened to strike over safety concerns, and families who valued education began flooding out of St. Paul schools. In June 2016, the school board voted out the superintendent.

Today, MDHR seems intent on duplicating this failed social experiment throughout Minnesota.

It’s a funny thing about liberals–they are undaunted by failure. It’s almost as though they don’t really care whether their policies work or not.

Kathy talks about the fact that the Minnesota Department of Human Rights’ power grab is being carried out in secrecy, and continues:

The fact is, public scrutiny is vital here, to expose the three deeply flawed premises on which MDHR’s race-focused discipline campaign is based.

The department’s first faulty premise is that teachers, not students, are to blame for the racial discipline gap. MDHR bureaucrats’ key (if unspoken) assumption is that students with widely different socioeconomic and family backgrounds — as groups — all misbehave in school at the same rate. Relying on this premise, the department attributes any significant group disparities to discriminatory teachers and discipline practices, by default.

But consider this: Nationally, white boys are suspended at more than twice the rate of Asian and Pacific Islander boys, while boys in general are suspended much more often than girls.

Is this because teachers are biased against white students and boys? Or does it reflect real differences in conduct?

Liberals who claim that disparate discipline rates must be evidence of racist teachers never want to talk about the fact that Asian students are suspended much less often than whites.

There are, in fact, real differences in group behavior. For example, nationally, young black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at 10 times the rate of whites and Hispanics of the same age. Behaviors that lead to criminal conduct are also likely to produce school misconduct. Tragically, black students’ discipline rate is most likely higher than other students’ because, on average, they misbehave more.

A groundbreaking 2014 study by J.P. Wright and colleagues in the Journal of Criminal Justice appears to confirm this. Using the largest sample of school-aged children in the nation, the authors found that teacher bias plays no role in the racial discipline gap, which is “completely accounted for by a measure of the prior problem behavior of the student.”

What accounts for group differences in behavior? A primary factor appears to be profound demographic differences in family structure. Nationally, about 72 percent of African-American and 66 percent of Native American children are born out of wedlock, as opposed to 29 percent and 17 percent of white and Asian children, respectively. Young people who grow up without fathers are far more likely than their peers to engage in antisocial behavior, as voluminous research makes clear.

These facts are well known, apparently to everyone except the Obama Department of Education and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

MDHR’s second flawed premise is that black students’ higher suspension rates give rise to a “school to prison pipeline,” which reduces their chances for future success. Lindsey told MinnPost that kids who miss school because of suspensions aren’t as likely as others to learn or graduate, and so are more likely to land in prison.

But the problem of missed school days goes far beyond days missed for suspensions. Chronic absenteeism, defined in Minnesota as missing more than 10 percent of school days, is linked with poverty and home conditions. In 2015-16, 37 percent of Native American and 21 percent of black students were chronically absent, compared with 11 percent and 8 percent of white and Asian students, respectively.

The whole “school to prison pipeline” myth is disingenuous. It shouldn’t be surprising that teenagers who bring weapons to school, get into fights, assault teachers, are chronically disobedient and disruptive, take drugs on school property, and so on, are disproportionately likely to commit crimes that land them in prison. Only a liberal could be surprised at this correlation.

MDHR’s third flawed premise is that discipline policies that focus more on race than on a student’s actual conduct somehow benefit poor and minority children.

In fact, the greatest victims of such policies are the children — many poor and minority — who come to school ready to learn. The classroom disorder these policies promote can add insurmountable obstacles to their quest for a decent education.

There is more to Kathy’s column, which you can read here. As you know, if you are a regular Power Line reader, I am now President of Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota’s pre-eminent conservative voice. If you would like to support the work of policy analysts like Katherine Kersten, and help us to reform a backward blue state, you can go here to donate. All contributions are appreciated!

Jeff Flake In New Hampshire: I’m An Endangered Species Of Conservative; “Americanus Never-Trumpus, Subgenus RINO”

by Tim Rains at realclearpolitics:

“Republican Jeff Flake delivered a speech Thursday at the annual ‘Politics and Eggs’ event at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Flake said that during the administration of President Donald Trump, conservatives were an endangered species and the Republican Party had surrendered to a “propaganda-fueled dystopian view.”

“I stand before you today the rarest of species,” the retiring moderate Republican said at the start of his speech. “The American Conservative.”

“Americanus Never-Trumpus, subgenus RINO,” he joked. “There is a scurrilous rumor afoot that we’re not only rare but endangered. I don’t believe it!”

“But seriously, when the putatively conservative party loses its grasp on the meaning of basic terms –basically, the word conservative– that could just be a sign we’ve taken a wrong turn,” he said. “Say, hypothetically in 2018 we have a libertine budget-busting president who exudes chaos and dotes on authoritarians, who has replaced the State Dept. with Twitter, lives in a golden palace when he’s not at the White House, and he’s the conservative… And I’m the RINO.”

“The amazing thing is that in Washington right now, among people in my party, when you hear those two comparative profiles, people will say… yeah what’s the problem? It is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. What have we done with all the conservatives?”

“In seriousness though, we have a long road to recover as a party.”

Later, he said: “There is nothing that will be more vital then to expunge from the American record then this frenzied attack on the truth. There are few jobs that will be more difficult than putting that particular horseback in the barn. Such is the power of the president to either build or destroy. And the irony should not escape us here that someone whose name became known to us as a builder would have such a pension for destruction.”

“What does it say about conservatives that our message is so different than the words that my parents thought me, so different as to amount to a rejection of the optimistic vision of Ronald Reagan, the extraordinary decency of George H. W. Bush, the principled constitutionalism of Barry Goldwater? What does it say that we have succumbed to what can only be described as a propaganda-fueled dystopian view of conservatism?” he asked.

K-12: The War on Boys and Men

by Bruce Deitrick Price at American Thinker:

“Fox News just announced an upcoming series about the plight of Men in America.

“Men seem to be becoming less male,” Tucker Carlson said. “Something ominous is happening[.] … Men are taught there is something wrong with them. We took a close look at the numbers, and we found them so shocking that we’re devoting the month of March to a special series on men in America.”

Carlson concluded, “You’ll be stunned by the scope of the crisis. We were. It’s a largely ignored disaster. It affects every person in America.”

He noted, for example: “Men account for 77 percent of the nation’s suicides, they are more than twice as likely to become alcoholics, they are more likely to die of an overdose than women, and 90 percent of inmates are men.”

So what are the causes? Eighteen years ago, Christina Hoff Sommers published The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. Sommers concluded, “It’s a bad time to be a boy in America. Boys are less likely than girls to go to college or do their homework. They’re more likely to cheat on tests, wind up in detention, or drop out[.]” In short, Sommers found the causes in feminist theory and, more surprisingly, inside the nation’s classrooms.

The dirty big secret here is that our public schools don’t announce social engineering; they simply do it, especially with regard to altering how children view themselves. Public schools suppress boys and uplift girls in many furtive ways. This manipulation has been hugely successful: 57% of college students are female; 43% are male. More women stay in college and earn advanced degree. Women wear business suits, and men drive pickup trucks. Culturally similar men and women who used to marry each other are now separated by class differences!

The question still haunts us: how exactly are America’s social engineers able to win this war for females?

The discussion is tricky from every point of view. However you might describe boys and girls, you’ll invite argument about what is good and what is bad. If you say girls are “more sensitive,” is that an insult or a compliment? The Atlantic Monthly nicely dances among many competing viewpoints:

[A] host of cross-cultural studies show that females … are more apt to plan ahead, set academic goals, and put effort into achieving those goals. They also are more likely than boys to feel intrinsically satisfied with the whole enterprise of organizing their work, and more invested in impressing themselves and their teachers with their efforts[.] … On the whole, boys approach schoolwork differently. They are more performance-oriented. Studying for and taking tests taps into their competitive instincts. For many boys, tests are quests that get their hearts pounding.

David Sortino, a teacher, argues on his blog: “[G]irls work best when sitting in a circle facing each other and find it more comfortable to learn in a group setting. Instead, boys often excel in a traditional class structure with desks lined in rows, which could support their more competitive energies and attention getting behaviors.

“Girls respond to stress as a threat, which drives blood to the gut rather than to the brain, placing them in a fight or flight persona. However, for boys, it’s the opposite. They love to take risks and almost always overestimate their abilities.”

QED: There are big, very real differences. We should wonder if these differences are artificially induced and then exaggerated. Oh, so that’s why some schools have all students sitting around tables – because it’s good for girls…?

What we know for sure is that girls are outperforming boys at all levels. Is this good for the country? Is it good for the girls?

A new study by the OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development], a club of mostly rich countries, examined how 15-year-old boys and girls performed at reading, mathematics and science. Boys still score somewhat better at maths, and in science the genders are roughly equal. But when it comes to the students who really struggle, the difference is stark: boys are 50% more likely than girls to fall short of basic standards in all three areas [emphasis added].

Why are girls performing better at school than their male classmates?

“First,” according to the OECD study, “girls read more than boys. Reading proficiency is the basis upon which all other learning is built. When boys don’t do well at reading, their performance in other school subjects suffers too.”

The basis upon which all other learning is built. That is ominous. Suppose social engineers figured out how to undercut reading.

One statistical site states that “[w]omen are more likely to develop solid reading skills. Around 38% of men report reading at the lowest proficiency levels, compared to 33% for women.”

Suppose our social engineers routinely seek to widen this gap. That would be feasible because boys and girls respond in different ways to absurd instruction.

Girls, as noted, feel more comfortable in a group setting. They want the whole group to move along harmoniously; they want their teacher to be successful. The result is that they are more patient and long-suffering with dumb curricula and wrongly trained teachers. Boys, on the other hand, are not so patient. If there is a skill or a task, boys want to do well quickly. Fair enough. But what if the curriculum is inherently stupid and impossible to master? Boys at some point will declare, I can’t do this. I don’t want to do this. I’m walking away.

Today, in Common Core, we see many absurdities almost perfectly designed to drive boys to escape and evasion. The internet is full of videos of children weeping because instruction seems so illogical. Little seven-year-olds are already beat up.

But the paradigm of stupid instruction remains Whole Word. That’s where the student has to memorize the English language one word at a time. The famous Dr. Samuel Orton, a neurologist, did a study in 1926-28 and declared that this method doesn’t work…and, in addition, it will damage every child it touches. He was exactly correct, and the Education Establishment knows it. What do we see in the schools of America? Millions of semi-literate children with messed up minds.

StatisticBrain claims that 32 million Americans “can’t read.” Tens of millions more read marginally. This is a vast national tragedy. Ask yourself, why is this tolerated? Perhaps because it makes the population easier to control. Perhaps because it enables the stratification of the sexes.

You want to fix it? Fix reading. I think the smarter people understand this. But the Education Establishment won’t let go because this particular stupid curriculum is the foundation for making women more successful and making men less successful.

But what if today’s classroom and curriculum structure catered (however unintentionally) to one gender more than the other? Many researchers say this is now the case, with boys facing an upward struggle from primary school on. For many boys, co-educational public schools can be uncomfortable, unfriendly, unproductive places. Teaching styles and disciplinary habits are often not suited to the average boy[.] … In learning environments biased against their strengths, boys may become turned off or frustrated and may attempt to have their needs met by seeking negative attention. This rebellion completes the circle of failure … with many boys labelled as troublemakers or diagnosed with hyperactivity.

That can mean drugs, which make boys weaker and less manly….”

Note by ghr: There is no doubt that compared to the almost three generations I have lived the American ‘girl’ (by birth) has been butched up in feature and dress, fattened up tremendously everywhere, and ditsier by head. Mother is working. Dad might be absent. Schools have become empty of learning, loaded with twits of all ages and sexes. No history is taught. No history books allowed for they advance the story of the human male…..a crime of the first order in the fascist state of Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary R. Clinton.

What IS taught is the garbage poison arriving from feminist mouths of all colors, shapes, sexes and sizes, that there is no differences between human female and male animals.

Then their is the black feminist-atheist lie sold in the American knowledge-free, hate white filled public and private schools where ever they exist, that the human white male animal has been the source of World evil throughout human history…..which is at maximum ten years of racist memorization in the American urban black so-called “education” system…..After all that is what the Sovietized Urban Black-White Racist leftists sell in their protests, attacks, and burnings since November, 2016.

And don’t forget the tricks played by the Charles Blow news world of racist sales in the world closer to Wall Street. Hillary and her herd are certain that males outside of her leftist government ilk are deplorables and worse. She is a man hater especially if he is white.

Worst of all, the arrogant leftists, especially the wealthy Jewish political and intellectual LEFT led in my day by Alan Dershowitz, have worked overtime during the past sixty years following World War II to destroy JudeoChristianity, the very core of human decency, freedom, and civilization, the greatness upon which our American republic was based, the civilization now conquered by corporate greed and the worship of ignorance to make human male and female EQUAL!

OUR ONCE FREE AMERICA IS IN DEEP TROUBLE, FOLKS! DEMOCRAT PARTY FASCISM IS NOW INSIDE OUR DO0R STEP IT’S INSIDE IN OUR LIVING ROOMS, SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, MOVIES, ISLAMIC CENTERS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, EVEN AT GOOGLE AND NEARLY EVERY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY IN THE COUNTRY TO CONTROL YOUR THINKING.

IT NESTS AT FOREIGNER-CONTROLLED FOX AND ITS INTERNATIONAL COHORTS WHO CONSPIRE EVERY DAY AGAINST THE LAST VESTIGE OF DEMOCRACY’S LIFE IN AMERICA……DONALD J. TRUMP!

BUT SELLING LEFTIST PARTY FASCISM, ESPECIALLY ITS FEMINIST AND IMMIGRATION VARIETY, IS SUPREME AT PBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS.

CIVIL WAR OF LEFTIST FASCIST UPRISINGS AGAINST THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND AND LEGAL GUARANTOR OUR AMERICA FREEDOM, HAS ALREADY BEGUN THROUGHOUT FASCIST LEFT CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON STATE, NEW YORK, ILLINOIS, CORRUPT NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, CONNECTICUT, AND DELAWARE…..crooks, Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff breeds of socialist dictatorship.

Profiteers dictate control of business and politics interests even at realclearpolitics.

Gurus in charge of this realclearleftism pretend to cast a Conservative America shadow over its neighbors to cover its international profiteering at the American workers’ expense. Phony Fox “fair and balanced” antiTrump division is owned by foreigners interested in profits, now that Britain and Australia are already camps of socialist-facsistic establishments run by international, not national or local interests.

We local Americans are becoming imprisoned by these internationalists who now rule, own these America’s Big, Big, Big businesses, the main financiers of the entire “Democrat” Party empire these days.

Then there remains at Fox, our international camp of Carl Rove Republican functionaries, the World Wide Big Business propaganda folks to topple Our Donald’s presidency….with both salesmanship, language, and charts advance the economy of the super wealthy with no thought, no regard, no concern for the destruction our traditional American Republic…..

There was an election in America that November 8, 2016. Donald J. Trump, NOT the ‘toadess’ and her Democrat Party and their Big, Big Business Fascist World of International Emperors was elected!

Donald Trump has thus far saved what is left of our democratic America from the curse of its FIRST INTERNATIONAL FASCIST-SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT IN HISTORY WITH HILLARY AND OBAMA, AL SHARPTON, MAXINE WATERS, CORRUPT ADAM SCHIFF, and 20,000,000 ILLEGAL legal GOVERNMENT “BOUGHT” FOREIGNERS AT THE HELM.

Industry, honesty, JudeoChristianity , the working class, the common citizen, seeking Truth through knowledge in America have been crucified since 1990 with the arrival of the wealth of the RISING BIG-BIG international industrial and trade world (example Nafta) and its destruction of the American economy by moving its productions elsewhere, out of America for bigger profits at cheaper expense for the greedy classes throughout the globe. And then there arose the disorders of the FEMINIST DITSIES, the neurotic noises from mindless-with feelings, the inevitable FEMINIST REVOLUTIONARIES, the Betty Friedans, Andrea Dworkins, the Gloria Steinem ditsies who mouth fascism’s affection for hysteria, evils, intolerance, corruption at university where ever, whenever they make their noises, all creating the following for our once honorable, honored, United States of America:

TO HELL WITH THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. TO HELL WITH THE PENNSYLVANIAN MINER, THE WISCONSIN DAIRY FARMER, THE ST. LOUIS URBAN PHARMACIST, TOO HELL WITH THE FAMILY WITH A MOTHER AT HOME CARING FOR HER CHILDREN, TO HELL AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO AMERICA’S JUDEOCHRISTIAN LEARNINGS AND PREACHING AND ITS GODFEARING FOLLOWERS WHO CREATED AMERICA’S FREEDOMS………

AND TO HELL TO ALL THOSE FOLKS WHO, WITH THEIR HEART AND MUSCLE, NEARLY ALL HUMAN MALES, LIVED, DEFENDED, LIVED AND DIED TO CREATE, BUILD, SEEK TRUTH, AND DEFEND A GOD-FEARING NATION BASED ON SEEKING TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE TO MEET THE INEVITABLE CHALLENGES OF THE UNKNOWN FUTURE.

The following is today’s top three listings from realclearpolitics selling, pretending that Time, Slate, and Big, Big Business Wall Street Journal represent their ‘conservative’ persuasions for the press. NO WONDER I AM SUCH AN AMERICAN DONALD TRUMP FAN!!

(PS: I admit the above article requires some editing to clarify further, deeper, “The curse of the Adam Schiff fascists ” we traditional, freedom-loving Americans must now confront in Congress, in California, Illinois, and New York and our nation’s schools and universities, and at our borders in particular, and throughout the country in general by rediscovering our JudeoChristian values these leftists have destroyed.

I’ll get to the task some day, but in the meantime, Wake Up America!!!

My, how feminized our United States of America has become since the Reagan years. How feminized the American human male animal has become since the Reagan years. One wonders what they are drinking.

Perhaps Planned Parenthood is adding (at tax payer expense) something poisonous in the American drinking water that is creating a Ditsy Single sex, Ditsy single thinking, Obamaling single feminized national tribe!?

Uncle Sam’s Leftists have resurrected a Pocahontas who may be running national politics soon, but this 2018 ‘she’ has not yet agreed to a DNA sample to zap her deceit, but no matter….Feelings, Deception, NOT TRUTH, is the drive that sends this feminized animal’s “New Age” sex into action in the Obama-Cinton Era…..to:

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PELOSI-SCHIFF-SCHUMER FUTURE FOR ‘MANKIND’! THEY ARE DRIVEN BY FASCISM TO DESTROY CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA BY CONTROLLING YOUR NEWSPRINT, GOVERNMENT, SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, BOOKS THE DWORKIN-STEINEM, AND FRIEDAN WAY!

AT U OF MIAMI, FREE SPEECH IS EXPENSIVE

by John Hinderaker at PowerLine:

The Federalist Society at the University of Miami Law School proposed to bring in Charles Murray as part of a debate on free speech. Ironically enough, the university responded by charging the Federalist Society for the cost of security for the event–security made necessary by liberals’ proclivity toward violence. The tab? Nearly $8,000, a prohibitive sum for most campus groups. Goodbye, debate on free speech!

The president and vice-president of the Federalist Society sent this letter to the Dean of Miami Law School:

Dean White,

We have just received the proposed security cost estimate from the UM Police Department. We are surprised and genuinely concerned about the implications that this request has for this event, the Federalist Society, and the law school. We ask that you quickly clarify (by March 6th) that no such fee will be required. Otherwise you will be censoring free speech—more precisely a debate on free speech.

The total cost listed for security is a minimum of $7,646, guaranteed to increase with the hiring of additional wanders and bag checkers. This is unprecedented and obviously unaffordable for any student group.

Just as one example, last year, the co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Alicia Garza, gave multiple stand-alone lectures at our University at the invitation of Osamudia James, a professor at Miami Law. At the time, the BLM movement was developing into one of the most powerful and controversial interest groups our nation has seen in decades. Their activities received national attention on a daily basis by virtually every major news source. By that time, the group had been responsible for numerous high profile demonstrations that inflamed passions across the nation and on both sides of the political aisle.

This all goes to say that the co-founder of the BLM Movement was—at the time—a highly controversial figure in American politics. Her controversial nature is simply not debatable. Nonetheless, we are not aware of any security costs that were charged for her individual speaking events. That event was sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Student Affairs, Student Life, Multicultural Student Affairs, and Housing and Residential Life. If security cost were in fact imposed, we would be very interested to find out the amount charged and who ultimately paid those fees.

This situation boils down to the following: The Miami Law Federalist Society is the only student organization on campus that has been required to furnish security fees prior to an event, and it is the most prominent libertarian/conservative organization on campus. The imposition of these security fees is sure to have a chilling effect on the Federalist Society’s operations at UM.

Dr. Murray is an Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a renowned political scientist, author, and public speaker. His groundbreaking scholarship was the catalyst that led to the comprehensive (and bipartisan) Welfare Reform Act signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton. Dr. Murray was a Peace Corps Volunteer, worked with US-AID in Thailand. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from MIT. He is a decorated scholar, having been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Rhodes College and Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He has also been a recipient of the Irving Kristol Award, the Kistler Prize, and the Edmund Burke Award. He has published over 18 books and hundreds of academic articles. He is not a danger to the welfare of University students; he is not a speaker that warrants almost $8,000 in security costs. He is an elderly academic that poses no risk to the University’s operations. The only risk he poses is upsetting the established norms of academic thought and behavior at the University of Miami. That alone does not justify levying these impossible costs on the Miami Law Federalist Society. These security fees are only setting a bad precedent at Miami Law that conservative/libertarian leaning organizations will have to pay to play whereas other organizations are entitled to explore ideas free of charge, indeed with support from the school.

This event is a debate on free speech and academic freedom. If it cannot be held at one of Florida’s most prestigious law schools, where can it be held? By assessing unnecessary security fees against the inviting student organization in response to threats of disruption, you are effectively giving those who threaten the safety of campus a Heckler’s Veto over any topic, speaker, or discussion that they are not comfortable with.

Rather than protecting your students, you are doing them a grave disservice by sheltering them from ideas that they have neither heard nor taken the time to fully understand. As future legal practitioners, students at Miami Law would behoove themselves to learn how to deal with unfamiliar and challenging ideas in a civil manner. We should not be encouraging our students to embrace emotional and intellectual frailty. Instead, we should be encouraging students to develop and exhibit mature adult traits, including the ability to listen and disagree courteously, or to simply exercise the choice not to attend events that may offend them.

If for any reason you cannot eliminate this fee, please let us know what the reason is for the fee and how this event differs from other events where no fee was charged.

Warm regards,

Stephen M. Smith
J.D. Candidate | 2018
Federalist Society | President
University of Miami School of Law

Alex Kiselev
J.D. Candidate | 2018
The Federalist Society | Vice President
University of Miami School of Law

Liberals don’t have to worry about paying for security for their events, because conservatives aren’t violent, and we respect others’ rights of free speech. Thus, the heckler’s veto is a one-way street–it operates only to prevent conservative voices from being heard on campuses.

Let’s hope that the University of Miami Law School reverses what so far is a disgraceful position.

The Gun-Control Debate Could Break America

(Article sent by Lisa Rich in California.)

Please Click below for the above titled National Review article after you have read the following commentary regarding a reality in today’s America:

“Government gun control is foreign, non existent in a learned, freedom-oriented, masculine led God-fearing society. Such societies abhor fascists and fascism from the deceitful America’s Obama and Hillary-ilk to and through the Sovietized, Nazified, Maoist dictatorships of yesteryear, the single such Party Animal Farm love to admire.

Is the perpetual war between freedom and fascism a battle between the human sexes?

The human male animal is born a natural killer programmed to protect the protect, defend his neighborhoods of the the animal species, Homo sapiens. This male animal is born curious, a problem solver, a seeker of Truth, a builder, inventor, defender of his mate and their offspring he provides for and the community he protects by the laws of Nature.

The human female is born to bear and mother her offspring of the species so vital to continue the animal’s existence. She is born ditsy, dependent, sensitive, clever, romantic, a nurturer, dreamer, but vulnerable, incurious, devious, neither a builder, inventor, nor much of a defender with the exception of protecting her offspring or offspring very close to her.

Sorry, you Obama, Hillary American feminized neofascists……males, not females by Nature, SEEK TRUTH rather than conspiracy to satisfy his God-given animal duties to protect, build and serve human females for the continuation of our human species.

These feminized fascists of all sexes, colors, shapes, and sizes, learn their political indoctrination to “own power over all” at school, university, from the press and television news. They have NO GOD TO WORSHIP besides themselves and their Obama or Hillary and own the FBI gang of devious Mueller, Comey, and the Obama obedient, devious, criminal Attorney Generals, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.

SUCH GODLESS FASCISTS WORSHIP THEMSELVES AS MAO STUDENTS “CHOSEN BY THE PARTY” TO DICTATE THE LIVES AND THOUGHTS OF THE UNTERMENCHEN MASSES OF UNWORTHY FLOCK who might still remember being curious, inventive, gather knowledge rather than propaganda, and to breathe and think free to remember and seek Truth! ”